Survivor Theatre Project was created in response to an urgent need for survivors of sexual violence to bring their voices to the public discourse. STP’s work is guided by an anti-oppression framework to allow multiple, complex identities and experiences looking for expression, exploration, recognition and healing, within the context of sexual violence.
Survivor Theatre Project seeks to:
* increase access to the performing arts
* offer survivors a creative space for healing and empowerment
* expand public awareness on sexual violence
Survivor Theatre Project is a free theatre arts experience that brings creativity, community andperformance to survivors of sexual violence.
Creativity
Survivor Theatre Project offers a survivors a direct link to the richness and power of expressive and performing arts. Individuals - who may or may not consider themselves to be artists - are supported by the curriculum to gain access their own creativity and personal experience, then apply that powerful combination to writing and crafting meaningful autobiographical pieces.
Community
Rape, assault, incest, and childhood sexual abuse are profoundly isolating experiences, especially within a culture that denies the prevalence and impact of interpersonal violence, and does little to detect or stop it. Here, survivors can come together in conscious awareness, build an ensemble, learn theatre and improvisation skills, and create something amazing together. Participants celebrate their strengths, discover their commonalities, and explore their unique stories.
Performance
The circle is complete when the survivor-artists finally perform their work with confidence, skill, and daring - and participate in Q&A discussions with the invited audience. Performing is important and transformative as it meets survivors’ deep need to break silence surrounding sexual violence - and about what it really takes to heal our culture.
Survivor Theatre Project offers a survivors a direct link to the richness and power of expressive and performing arts. Individuals - who may or may not consider themselves to be artists - are supported by the curriculum to gain access their own creativity and personal experience, then apply that powerful combination to writing and crafting meaningful autobiographical pieces.
Community
Rape, assault, incest, and childhood sexual abuse are profoundly isolating experiences, especially within a culture that denies the prevalence and impact of interpersonal violence, and does little to detect or stop it. Here, survivors can come together in conscious awareness, build an ensemble, learn theatre and improvisation skills, and create something amazing together. Participants celebrate their strengths, discover their commonalities, and explore their unique stories.
Performance
The circle is complete when the survivor-artists finally perform their work with confidence, skill, and daring - and participate in Q&A discussions with the invited audience. Performing is important and transformative as it meets survivors’ deep need to break silence surrounding sexual violence - and about what it really takes to heal our culture.
About Melissa Redwin, Founder and Artistic Director
Melissa is a professional theatre artist, director, and educator who focuses on work with survivors of sexual violence and on theatre as a mode of community education and healing. Originally from North Carolina, she holds an MA in Theatre Education from Emerson College. Melissa co-founded the Scapegoat Theatre Collective, a company which produces relevant, provocative theatre to reach new and diverse audiences in Asheville, NC.
Melissa currently teaches and performs with Enchanted Circle Theater, a professional educational theater company based in Holyoke, Massachusetts, which is dedicated to engaging, enhancing, and inspiring learning through the arts. Melissa has performed in Enchanted's touring educational productions of Sojourner's Truth: I Will Shake Every Place I Go To, Skinner Servant's Tour, and Between the Canals. She also works as a freelance actor and play director with Paintbox Theater, Ashfield Community Theater, Roxbury Repertory Theater, and New England Russian Theater Festival.
Contact Melissa at: survivortheatreproject@gmail.com.
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